“Hwuuu…”

 

The distant sound of someone sobbing echoed familiarly.

 

Was a banshee crying again?

 

The voices that sounded were quite a bit different from one, though.

 

“Hwuuuuu…”

 

“You can stop.”

 

Oh, was it just a dream?

 

A dark room slowly became clearer. I’d seen this room before.

 

As the darkness surrounding me gradually ebbed away, I saw a woman crying, standing in front of a balcony and rubbing the heel of her palm against her chest. A man was moving closer to her.

 

I couldn’t see their faces, but a strange sense of familiarity washed over me. The thought of having met this couple somewhere else passed me by.

 

Oh, that’s right. I had had a dream like this once before.

 

Yes, in another place, at another time, that woman had been smiling wickedly, and that man…

 

“Isn’t it time you stopped with the bad acting?”

 

The woman quit her wailing. “What if I don’t want to?”

 

“Ah, you’re really driving me crazy.”

 

“As expected, it doesn’t work on you,” I couldn’t see it, but I could feel the woman sneering. “You’re so annoying, you know that, right?”

 

The sadness ailing her vanished in an instant, something menacing gracing her features instead. I still couldn’t see what she looked like, but I felt the aggression dripping from her echoing and settling in my bones.

 

The man looming over her seemed to be very angry. “You turned the court banquet into a damn circus show. Have you no shame?”

 

“That girl was asking for it. What did you want me to do?”

 

“Did you fight with her just cause she asked you a question? Why don’t you pick a fight with the entire world then?”

 

“You weren’t even there, so what do you know? Right, it must’ve been your little sister that told you. Of course, she must have chosen her side again. She always does.”

 

The woman gave a bitter laugh, the air turning sullen.

 

“Watch your mouth.”

 

“Oh, don’t deny it, you know it’s true. And what if I don’t watch my mouth? Will you hit me? Don’t even joke around, because we both know you won’t.”

 

I was starting to worry a little for the woman.

 

She was deliberately targeting her opponent’s weak spots, his rage already reaching its breaking point. The harsh breaths he took was the only sound that could be heard in this dark and empty room.

 

“You’re such a bad f**king girl.”

 

“And you’re so handsome,” she swooned, ridicule but also honesty honeying her sweet voice.

 

“Consider it an honor then, if you’re willing to admit it.”

 

“Hah! An honor? You?”

 

“Anything you’re dissatisfied with? Tell me, since I’m your so-called husband.”

 

“I’m dissatisfied with your existence itself.”

 

your existence,

 

The mood was strange.

 

two were seriously fighting, but they couldn’t take their eyes off one another

 

would turn around any minute now, storming out of the door if not taking swings at each other before that. Instead, it was the distance between them that was dwindling, something I couldn’t quite put

 

were almost chest to

 

appearance you’re at least not dissatisfied

 

It just came out like that, it didn’t mean anything. There are a hell of a lot more attractive men much better-looking than you in

 

then? Hurry up and go

 

“You’re a damn j*rk.”

 

other, right?” The man came closer, as if there was still space left

 

don’t participate

 

“Hell no!”

 

“Then I won’t either!”

 

the woman raked her fingers through the man’s hair and dug her nails

 

man was twice her size, but he went

 

who these people were, and why I was here, as I took in the scene of

 

breaths and desperate kissing filled the dark chamber.

 

hopeless and wretched

 

eyes turned to

 

a ghost in this

 

woman smiled at

 

into pieces. The face I hadn’t been able to see

 

The woman was me.

 

Borgia, that’s you… That’s

 

Then, that man is…

 

wanted to check, to see, to make sense of it, but it was as if someone had turned me to stone. I couldn’t move. I couldn’t talk. I couldn’t

 

waned, and the room plunged into darkness. The man and the woman vanished and I lost myself to

 

***

 

white shining right into my eyes had me twitching, trying to blink it

 

head. I tried to lift my hand, but

 

am I? Who got me here? What happened

 

the broken fragments of my memories as I slowly woke up, I turned my eyes to my right, the feeling of someone else’s arm

 

I wanted to cry.

 

overjoyed to see him safe and lying next to me, looking like he hadn’t just gone

 

in, my eyes leaving no part of his face untouched. He

 

He looked miserable, though.

 

fingers through his bangs, the movement taking everything out of me, but my want was greater than anything else at the

 

hoarse, almost a whisper

 

really thinking of anything. It felt like

 

had done in my previous life and everything I had done in this life, all of it flashed before my eyes, like

 

my own body thinking about it

 

like him, the voice I answered him with was low and hoarse as well, a

 

“What…?”

 

me. All I was, was an illusion. Once it broke,

 

that

 

they realized I wasn’t what they had wanted me to be. When my brother had had enough of my sniveling and groveling and breaking down, when I

 

always been

 

“Always.”

 

muscle twitched in his jaw and his lips curled into a mean snarl. I knew it wasn’t me he was directing it at. “Were all

 

I’m hated without doing

 

I pressed hard on the bone of his cheek, wondering if he

 

cracking such a silly joke, Izek still kept on gazing at me with that same brokenhearted

 

fully,

 

my own arm around his wide torso and burying my head in the juncture where his shoulder and neck met, breathing in his masculine

 

my

 

a dream, but I didn’t remember

 

look at me like that. Because it’s not your

 

suffering-from-main-character-disease arrogant man,

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